the law of civilization and decay

On four counts this volume is to be included among the out- standing documents of intellectual history in the United States and, in a way, the Western World. It deserves a prime place among the writings of the Adams family on the nature and course of so- cial politics, from the The Defence of the Constitutions of the United States by John Adams to the three penetrating and ex- plosive essays on…

an introduction to contemporary history

We live today in a world different, in almost all its basic preconditions, from the world in which Bismarck lived and died. How have these changes come about? What are the formative influences and qualitative differences which are the distinguishing marks of the contemporary era? It is with these questions that the present book is concerned, and for that reason I have called it an introduction …

Java’s onuitputtelijke natuur

Junghuhn, wiens leven voor een groot deel gewijd is ge- weest aan het natuuronderzoek op Java, werd in 1809 in Mansfeld geboren in het voormalige koninkrijk Pruisen. Hij stierf in 1864 te Lembang, een plaatsje gelegen tegen de hellingen van zijn geliefde vulkaan de Tangkoeban Prahoe, nabij Bandoeng Java was zijn vaderland gewor- den, zei hij en schreef hij Op de top van een van Java's vulkanen …

Java the garden of the east

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xiv, 339 pages

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Guru somalang dan modigliani “Utusan raja rom”

Dalam buku Toba Na Sae diungkapkan beberapa mitos, legenda, dan pokok-pokok, sejarah Batak Toba sebelum dan permulaan penjajahan Belanda. Dalam buku Guru Somalaing diuraikan pandangan Modigliani yang menjelajahi Batak Toba selama kurang lebih 3 bulan, dan kegiatan Guru Somalaing Pardedernrnmengembangkan agama Parmalim dalam rangka melawan penjajah Belanda. Emilio Modigliani, orang Italia, adala…

Seven thousand isles

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100 Pages

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915.99 Far s

Africa's lands and nations

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From peking to mandalay

THE journey of which an account is given in the following pages was not undertaken in the special interests of geographical or other science nor in the service of any Government. My chief object was to gratify a long-felt desire to visit those portions of the Chinese Empire which are least known to Europeans, and to acquire some knowledge of the various tribes subject to China that inhabit the …

Mankind and mother earth :a narrative history of the world

THE celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 called to mind the history of the preceding sixty years, and this retrospect opened up a view of the whole of history which looked clear and simple Between 1837 and 1897 the West had completed the establishment of its ascendancy over all the rest of the World. This was the consummation of a process that had been started, four hundred y…

Touring guide

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336 pages

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915.99 Tou